Aerial Battles Coming To Warhammer 40,000 In Stormcloud Attack
June 21, 2016 by brennon
Games Workshop have added to the leaks from this week about a new Aerial Combat game coming to Warhammer 40,000. Stormcloud Attack will come with three different sets which allow you to clash in the skies by dogfighting with some of the factions impressive aircraft.
Here you can see what the comes in each of the sets including Eldar, Orks, Space Marines, Chaos, Tau and Necrons. You can take a look at some more shots of the contents for these sets here as they dropped as part of a White Dwarf leak earlier in the week HERE.
While this might seem like it's come out of nowhere the fact that you get a brand new game out of this to play out on the tabletop is reason enough to snap these up. It's a little bit like what they did with the Imperial Knights.
What do you think of this new venture?
"Stormcloud Attack will come with three different sets which allow you to clash in the skies by dogfighting with some of the factions impressive aircraft..."
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Are the models a smaller scale?
Seeing as there are three sets, and it appears there is only one of each flyer in each set, I highly doubt it. They look to be the same scale as regular 40K
Box contents from what I can make out from the blurry image:
2 flyers
Flight manual
Reference sheet
Transfer sheet
Dice
Odd. Not for a 4′ by 6′ table I’m thinking. If it is, it would mostly be a paper/dice exercise, with model(s) plonked down in front of you for show. Seems more suited to the outdoors, or a gymnasium. Curious as to how they’re going to make this happen.
It’ll be interesting to see if they price it like Renegade. Cheaper minis and a throwaway game. Like you said, the scale just doesn’t work with the space people have. Unless they put in rules allowing me to fly them round my house…
It would only make sense if the game was cheaper than buying the two flyers separately
Which, if it’s anything like the Imperial Knights: Renegade, it will be. Renegade Essentially got you the Two Knights and two pieces of Cities of Death scenery for the price of one Knight and the scenery. The discount was significant
Their facebook page literally says ” … rules for every Flyer currently available as a Citadel miniature will also be released alongside the new game. …”
So I suspect that they’re the same minis as used by 40k.
I understand why they’d do that, but when you look at the scales used by games like ‘Wings of Glory’ and X-wing it is a bit too big.
OTOH … the birds in Tailfeathers aren’t exactly small either.
…I smell desperation!
I don’t think it’s desperation, I think it’s actually fairly clever marketing. They’re providing alternative ways to use existing miniatures. This isn’t really much different to Mantic and the Warpath/Deadzone crossover or Kings or War and Dungeon Saga.
I really don’t think that this is in any way intended to compete with X-Wing, Attack Wing or Wings of Glory – not directly at any rate.
I smell @onlyonepinman ‘s desperation 🙂
I think they’re missing an opportunity by not trying to go for a competitor with Xwing & co.
Desperation may be closer to the truth at this rate.
Pretty sure they couldn’t compete. That would be like resurrecting Battlefleet Gothic to try and compete against Firestorm Armada and Dropfleet Commander.
BFG will more than likely be resurrected by Specialist Games because it still has a massive following.
They’re not missing an opportunity because at this precise moment there is no specific reason to produce a game to compete with X-wing because there’s no evidence to suggest that X-wing is struggling and GW could snap up disgruntled players. Unless GW have something new to offer beyond a new setting why would someone who plays X-wing switch to GWs game? R0k and X-wing aren’t directly competing with each other and the two can continue to co-exist, there’s no need for GW to try and compete with FFG. GW entering into the X-wing market would be a huge gamble and… Read more »
Interesting. So there is three different versions of this with two of six flyers.
I wonder if they will priced similar to the knights bargain?
Imperial Knights was technically a bargain. Two Knights (individually priced at £95) and two pieces of Cities of Death scenery for £120. It’s almost like you buy one Knight, some scenery and get a second Knight for free.
I like 40k as much as the next fanboy but flyers in 40k scale are just plain stupid.
I think fliers in the 40k game are stupid but fliers in this scale in a game of their own could work, although you will need a large table!
Which means they should be doing a flyer game in a scale that suits it, aka not 28mm 😉
Is there an echo in here? 🙂
It could work but youd need a damn large airfield (on 40k full scale warfare)
here… here 😀
Don’t underestimate people’s attachment to scale. Although I don’t particularly like fliers in 40k I do like the models as do a lot of other people. This is just a means of letting people play a different game with existing models. We don’t know much about this at the moment so we can’t really speculate too much but I think this will be a one, maybe two, models per side game, not full squadrons like X-wing. I don’t think GW are trying to compete with X-wing with this game, they’re just providing more ways to play with your models and… Read more »
They definitely aren’t trying to compete with X-Wing. There’d need to be some fundamental changes in how GW see their business for them to even contemplate competing with X-Wing.
ForgeWorld had a flyer game back in the day called Aeronautica Imperialis that was in Epic scale.
It’s quite fun, but no longer supported.
Lets see if, for their next game, they can produce a simple yet fun and playable game that is 28mm heroic and takes place on ground level
They’d call it “Age of Horus” and it would reboot the entire 40k universe …
They are spamming this stuff like mad. Id rather see the new Epic/BFG or Blood Bowl than these repacks with half assed rulesets.
We will see that but it’s being handled by Forgeworld so GW can chuck this stuff onto the shelves. And in fairness, I don’t think these rulesets take up much of their time to write.
It’s an entirely different division that makes these games. Epic IS currently being worked up under the title Adpetus Titanicus. These “half assed” rules sets are nothing more than a vehicle to drive sales of existing models, to inject a bit of interest into some of their older products. There’s no reason at all why they can’t co-exist and they’re probably not taking a great deal of time up on GW’s part.
I think it would work better at an Epic sort of scale with a square in the centre of the map to link with a 40K table battle if required?
This definitely feels like GW was worried about low sales with their flyers and pushed this out the door to increase sales briefly.
Sidenote, whoever designed the SM flyer is an imbecile. A three year old could draw a better looking flyer than that.
it reminds me of running round my house with my kenner x wing , ah happy days.
would be cool at a gaming club ,clear the floor and everyone gets one ship.
the massive x wing templates would have me randomly breaking out in giggles though out.
Didn’t FW a few years back bring out a 40K flying game using smaller scale flying craft for all the races and is that still going?
Not still going.
It disappeared when GW pulled the specialist games division because it relied, partially, on some of the epic range.
I imagine at this size of models, table size will not really matter. you probably won’t be maneuvering like in X-wing or even that other one from forgeworld, but rather in some abstract way like a card game or something. I applaud these games, they make the effort to revitalise a segment of models that usually are too expensive so many do not buy them. This way they get to move kits that already have done the rounds so any further sales are pure bonus revenue, The players probably will be buying this to use the models in 40k, which… Read more »
I’m going to start from the assumption that this will be like the recent Renegade release, in that it will package some fliers together at a discount and add a throwaway game to the box. What you essentially have here is a sale dressed up as a game by a company who doesn’t do sales. There’s a truism which certainly applies in the gaming industry that nothing sells like new sells. A game store owner recently posted that if he buys in a new product and it doesn’t sell in the first week, he’ll struggle to sell it all and… Read more »
I think that’s exactly what they’re doing. I hadn’t thought about it in terms of a Sale, but I definitely had assumed that Renegade was a miniatures bundle first and foremost. The game was very much secondary and not much more than a freebie
I don’t do 40k but am actually intrigued by this and may purchase if the price and game are right.
neat, but I already play my own version of a flier game – it involves picking up my doom scythe with my hands and running around the house with it while making lots of childish thruster and lasergun noises. It’s usually met with looks of utter apathy.
@abstractalien you need to throw some dice as well, give it the veneer of playing “a game” and not “with toys”
What, like, throw them at each other? Like bullets?
This does actually work as very competent stand alone game and on a 6X4 table the scale works great. It has a full rulebook with a campaign system and doesn’t feel like a mini-game at all. Scenarios are for 2 players and then dogfights between 3 and 4 players and above. There are rules for flyers leaving the battlefield and returning with a potential penalty. which deals with the scale and table size isue. I’ve downloaded the app which contains the full rules and datasheets for all current flyers. Datasheets are also available for each flyer on it’s relevant page… Read more »